At its international meeting held in Paris, ICANN, the organization’s supervisory Net and domain names, announced the liberalization of generic extensions on the Internet for 2009. “From the first quarter, 1.3 billion Internet addresses can acquire generic by filing words like ‘. Love’, ‘. Hatred’ or proper names,” said Paul Tomey, CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), in an interview published on June 23, 2008 in Les Echos. But the liberalization of extensions worried. How much will pay a company to protect its name, brands, products and services? Individuals will they also be forced to buy domain names so that others do not use them inappropriately? Last year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has seen a 18% increase in the number of complaints for cyber squatting (deposit of domain names corresponding to a name known to take advantage of traffic generated or d ‘ receive consideration on the part of those who would like to recover the suffix concerned).ICANN, which seeks to divest itself of an image not always flattering, spoke of liberalization as an opening to the world. This “openness” should enable it to increase its revenues since the organization receives a sum on each domain sold (nearly 162 million so far, including 72 million. Com ‘12 million.’ and 1.1 million ‘. com). Created in 1998 at the initiative of the U.S. Commerce Department, ICANN is still criticized for the arbitrary nature of some of its decisions and influence always marked USA.
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